The Edinburgh spinout has been backed by Mercia Fund Managers to support development of its kidney dialysis camouflage coating.

The University of Leicester spinout will put the funding towards recruitment and moving its synthetic antibody operation into larger premises.

Nanoco, a nanomaterials spinout from University of Manchester, expects its new subsidiary can solve the problem of producing 2D materials at commercial scale.

LSE's investment complemented its leadership of a group featuring four other UK universities that will partner company builder Zinc to convert research into companies.

Yissum, though its investment fund Agrinnovation, has contributed to a seed round for one of its portfolio companies, Future Meat Technologies.

M12, the corporate venture capital unit formerly known as Microsoft Ventures, has contributed to a $1m round for Hazy, a UCL spinout previously known as Anon AI.

The unit, restructured as a full corporate venturing unit in 2016, has rebranded to M12 while its accelerator counterpart will be known as Microsoft ScaleUp.

University of the West of Scotland's first spinout will deliver ultrasound sensors with the help of a seed round featuring the devolved government-owned Scottish Investment Bank.

Cambridge spinout Paragraf has been backed by the university's commercialisation arm Cambridge Enterprise in its bid to deliver a commercial graphene production process.